Free Word Winners Announced on Press Freedom Day

This year, Belaru­sian jour­nal­ists have faced with exces­sive pres­sure from offi­cials – over 130 inci­dents o deten­tions, admin­is­tra­tive cas­es, search­es and warn­ings have been reg­is­tered by our mon­i­tor­ing ser­vice. Still, we hope that none pres­sure can pre­vent jour­nal­ists from pro­fes­sion­al work.

Today, BAJ tra­di­tion­al­ly announces the win­ners of the pro­fes­sion­al con­test of BAJ for jour­nal­ists Vol­naye Slo­va (Free Word). The award­ing cer­e­mo­ny has been held today at the gallery “Ў” in Min­sk.

Also, today the exhi­bi­tion of the win­ners of the World Press Pho­to is to be launched at 5 pm at the gallery of Cekh (Kas­trych­nit­skaya street, 16), and it will work until May 24.

Win­ners of Vol­naye Slo­va 2017:

Infor­ma­tion­al gen­res:

1. Siarhei Mali­nous­ki, Kom­so­mol­skaya Prav­da v Belorus­sii, “Sergey Mikhalok: the fat boy with har­mon­i­ca has not gone away – he is in my mind” (Ru)

2. Adar­ja Hushtyn, Naviny.by, “Democ­ra­cy is in Eng­land, here you stay three meters away from the table” (Ru)

3. Uladz Shvi­adovich, Iry­na Arak­houskaya, Nasha Niva, “Nazi­ra and Man­sour. Why they flee?» (By)

Ana­lyt­i­cal gen­res:

1. Vik­tar Martsi­novich, Die Zeit, “A short course of total­i­tar­i­an lin­guis­tics” (Ge)

2. Yahor Martsi­novich, Nasha Niva, “110 can­di­dates to be “elect­ed” to Par­lia­ment — check after the elec­tions” (By)

3. Rus­lan Har­ba­chou, Sal­i­dar­nasc, “What the “gold rain” has led to, pour­ing over Lukashenko’s small home­land” (Ru)

Fea­ture gen­res:

1. Ali­ak­san­dr Fiadu­ta, Naviny.by, Cycle “Lukashenko’s five elec­toral cam­paigns” (Ru)

2. Maria Bulavin­skaya, Bel­sat, «Over the sys­tem» (By)

3. Vital Tsy­hank­ou, Radio Svabo­da, “To pre­vent “Min­sknash”: to change the Russ­ian lit­er­a­ture for world lit­er­a­ture in schools” (By)

Inves­ti­ga­tions:

1. Art­siom Har­bat­se­vich, Nasha Niva, “Belaru­sian school pupils sent to Rus­sia train­ing camps guid­ed by neo-Nazis” (By)

5. Siarhei Sys, Svo­bod­ny­je Novosti Plus, Cycle “Secrets of the shoot­ing cor­ri­dor” (By)

2. Mary­na Kok­tysh, Nar­o­d­naya Volya, “Case of Evgeniy Miko­lut­s­ki” (Ru)

Debut:

1. Kat­siary­na Bakhvala­va, Radio Svabo­da, “We came to vis­it your Bac’ka — Russ­ian troops near the Belaru­sian bor­der” (By)

2. Vic­to­ria Kap­skaya, Ime­na, “Par­ents, are you crazy? Why 11-year-old Poli­na from Slut­sk did not believe that a fam­i­ly would be found for her” (Ru)

3. Ale­sia Malakovich, Intex-press, “Gyp­sy baron Niko­lay Bazyle­vich from Baranavichy: “I dream that my grand­son become a judge” (Ru)